JD will be kappellmeister in charge of Christmas at Nourishing Obscurity although I shall also pop up on December 24th. He kicks the season off with the inimitable Phil Spector: This is the greatest Christmas Album in The History of Rock N Roll. Recorded in 1963 at Gold Star Recording Studios. Yes The Beloved Christmas [...]
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Way to park:
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Usually, I avoid the Grauniad and BBC but somehow found myself in some prattily-named thing called Stephanomics. Ignoring her, of course, many comments though were quite informative and the Beeb does have UK wide scope, after all.
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So glad Patrick said this: The argument for teaching children to be polite and gracious doesn’t stand up when you know that there are many, many out there that WILL treat this as a weakness and take advantage of the fact. Do you teach them to say PLEASE don’t hit me? or, PLEASE, Can I [...]
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From Ian – you make what you will of all this: 1. The Pope’s Christmas message – stay firm at this time: He called Scripture a “compass” and an “anchor” that can be used to regain orientation when one feels lost or uncertain.
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Barking Spider has a rather worrying vid up about the electronic scanner which now enables anyone walking past you in the street to get your credit card details. It’s demonstrated in the vid.
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In the earlier post on free will and order, the central point was: Nietzschean types completely fail to understand that: “Kindness and gentility are not weakness.”
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The Rocket from Russia is set to become the last and only link to the International Space Station. With NASA finally retiring the shuttle program next year… that predicament is provoking mixed feelings of concern over excess reliance on Russia’s space program and enduring admiration for the hardiness of the Soviet-designed Soyuz.
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It’s certainly been used by despots to keep the population compliant over the centuries but Christianity is not a compliant faith, by worldly definition, quite the opposite in fact and that non-compliance has landed those who hold to it on the burning stake or nailed to crosses.
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The King James is the one I refer to if I need to. Nice to see this by Trooper, in reference to these utter prats. Trooper comments: Whether you are religious or not, there is great poetry and power in this work, and rejecting the King James Bible, as an Englishman – if not as [...]
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Good to see someone admitting the chance G-d exists: I am too much a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything. [T.H. Huxley, 1886]
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Water cannon, eh? Just casually suggested by the government – a final solution to rowdy students, eh? 1. P*ss off students mightily, especially the poorest and misrepresent the issue in the MSM;
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Well with James asking me so sweetly (pun intended) if I would write some more food posts, I thought I would take a look at puddings as this is the month when puddings are a highlight of many a Xmas lunch or dinner. First off, the classic bread and butter pudding, which is considered by [...]
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Interesting article. So is this: The XM2010 sniper rifle can hit a target 3,937 feet away, which is a quarter-mile farther than the current Army sniper rifle shoots. The added distance is important because insurgents have been shooting down from ridges and mountaintops where gravity helps their bullets travel farther and beyond the range of [...]
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Debatable – I’d include it as an example. It’s a blunt statement that suicide is self-murder and that unlike murderers who can repent later, a self-murderer can’t, therefore that person dies with murder around his/her neck. This moral absolute I only apply to myself.
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Wolfie’s not blogging now but he’s round-about and never far from commenting when it’s relevant – 200 times, in fact. We go back a long way and I have to admit I’ve forgotten when it began. A key member of Bloghounds, he’s the proud owner of a put-put which sent him nearly broke. This appears [...]
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The Japanese situation in present giving, IMHO, is ludicrously complex and takes all spontaneity away. Ours is a bit better but can be awful. For a start, I dislike obligatory present receiving and giving at any time – it should be something you want to do at the time, free of innuendo or ulterior motive. [...]
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You know, it was very difficult gathering these pics together and staying this side of the line.
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JD is on the move but he’s managed to send a set of photos of Madrid, of which the first four appear today:
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Not a lot to say but did you notice the poll in the Mail – do you still support the students after these riots? Why not ask – do you still support these French after the bank bailouts? And why “the” students, as if all students were unruly? I mean, there are two sets – [...]
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It’s that time again – work tomorrow and have to go to moderation at 22:00 as usual. As my misbehaving anti-spam is virtually making it moderation for regular readers anyway, I can only apologize, yet again. I upgraded both WP and the anti-spam and it hasn’t changed – in fact, it spammed me, by way [...]
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1. Which American satirist said: “After all, what is your host’s purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they’d have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi” ?
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I was going to dedicate this first number to Tiberius with a Telephone south of Birmingham, LOL but I think he actually prefers them black, so I’d better not. Still:
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Time for wimmin!
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While attention has been distracted towards Wikileaks and to a lesser extent, the EU, that other elephant in the room, the UN, has been largely out of sight for some time. Now they’re right back in it again with their demand for direct taxation of the world’s citizens. More on that further down. A bit [...]
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The question is why the Marxists, Tavistock, the Frankfurt school et al act as they do. Having been involved with the Fabians in my early days, it’s not hard to understand and here we need to divide adherents into two types – the culpable, in the full knowledge of what they are doing and the [...]
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